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Prisoner Hurt In Springfield Riot Succumbs Springfield Mo.-(CPD-A pris oner hurt when lawmen .crushed a 16-hour riot in the homosexual wing of the U. S. Medical Center died Wednes- - day night of a fractured skull. He was Richard Smith of Salt Lake City, a 24-year-old inmate serving seven years for threatening to kill or harm One President of the United i States. ' No Explanation Meanwhile, Warden Russell O. Settle said he is in no hurry to take action against the ring leaders of the" riot. He said he ' and his staff have found no rational explanation for the outbreak. ' He said Earl C. Taylor, 31, of Phenix City, Ala., "one of the most vicious prisoners in the entire federal prison sys tem," was the principal ring leader. Taylors two lieuten ants were identified as Bryan D. Reed, 24-year-old murderer from Los Angeles, and Carl Roberts, 19, of Kansas City, who is serving time for car theft, Smith was injured when 100 officers stormed the wing where 106 homosexual and mental patients heM five guards captive with knives at ; their throats. It was not made clear how Smith was injured; I whether by. officers in the at- .-tack force, by another prison er, or by accident".! Inmates Questioned w , Settle said he was in no hurry to take action against the rioters because "mental - responsibility" is involved. A board of inquiry contin ued to question inmates searching for the reason be hind the riot. "I think it was just a com pulsive, aggressive act," "Set tle said. "They haven't been able to name any of the demands they aid they would make, nor give a rational reason Two Stockholder Suits on File Eugene - (UPD - Two stock holder suits were filed in cir cuit court here Wednesday against the Booth-Kelly Lum ber company of Springfield. Georgia - Pacific Corpora tion, one of the stockholders, filed a petition asking that Booth-Kelly be forced to pro duce a record of its stock holders for examination. Robert S. Miller, another Booth-Kelly stockholder, filed against the company asking that he be allowed to ex amine the Booth-Kelly by laws. Circuit Judge Alfred T. Goodwin granted a writ di recting Booth-Kelly, to pro duce the record of stockhold ers and the bylaws or show cause why the petitions should not be allowed. He set a hearing on both suits for next Monday. Georgia-Pacific charged in its suit that Booth-Kelly of ficials refused to . allow Georgia - Pacific representa tives to examine the list and Miller said the same thing about the bylaws. Oregon Teamster Probe May ReoL Washington ffiPIJ The chief counsel for the Senate Labor Rackets committee said Wed nesday there was a "definite possibility" that the commit tee might reopen its investi gation into Teamsters union activities in Oregon. Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said he might know by late next week whether the com mittee headed by Sen. John McClelland (D-Ark.) would renew the Oregon Teamsters probe. ' If the committee does de cide to reopen the case, Ken nedy said the first witnesses would probably be called the week of July 6. He would not disclose the nature of the questions that would be put to Oregon witnesses. More Than 30,00! Acres of Alaskan Forests on Fire Fairbanks, Alaska - (CPD -Forest fires touched off by lightning had advanced over more than 30,000 acres today in scattered areas of Alaska. Fred Varney, chief fire con trol officer of the Bureau of Land management, recruited natives from villages through out the 49th state and turned to Oregon, California and Montana for help in building an army to stem the destruc tion. Three fires accounted for two-thirds of the burndd and burning acreage. Two blazes of 8,000 acres each were rag ing near the junction of Stony and Kuskokwim rivers and the Taylor mountains in in terior Alaska. A third fire of about 5,000 acres was advanc ing near Hughes. Animals Roasted ' Many smaller fires were re ported in other regions. Observers who flew over burning areas reported that many animals were seen rac ing ahead of the flames, but some were turned and roasted to death. The wildlife in some areas is vital to the livelihood of natives. ; The forests of most of Alas ka's timbered regions have been left exceptionally dry by a prolonged warm spell with maximum temperatures in the 80s. , ASNE URGES ACTION Washington -(LTD The pres ident of the American Society of Newspaper Editors has urged quick- Senate action on a recommendation by the Senate Rules Committee that payroll information on Sen ate employees be made avail able to the public. J. R. Wig gins, the ASNE president and executive editor of the Wash ington Post and Times Herald, called the. committee's action "gratifying." Goldwater Raps Senator Morse Washington-fCPD-Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) has endanger ed the dignity and reputation of the Senate with "personal invective" and "intemperate language," Sen. Barry Gold water (R-Ariz.) charged Wednesday. ' In a blast at the Oregon senior senator, Goldwater listed what he called recent examples of "name calling" by Morse. "There are those who be lieve certain recent perform ances on the floor of the Sen ate have been unconscionable and tend to undermine the reputation of this assembly," Goldwater said. "It seems to me, therefore, that the time has come for those, like my self, who are thoroughly con scious of the rights and priv ileges of American citizens, to speak out whenever intem perate language or name call ing is used in debate." Morse said he" was "amus ed" by the attack and had no intention of discontinuing "calling a spade a spade." Morse countered Gold water's remarks by challeng ing him to introduce a reso lution for censure. . Few senators were in the Chamber '." when Goldwater delivered the attack. 11.3 Million Tree Seedlings Shipped From State's Nurseries This Season Salem More than 11.3 mil lion forest tree seedlings were shipped from Oregon's two state forestry department nur series near Corvallis and Elk- ton -during the past planting season for the reforestation of state and privately owned for est lands, according to Assist ant State Forester C. D. Maus. "This represents a produc tion increase of nearly twice that of last year," Maus stated, "and is in response to the tre mendous demand for planting stock which has been ex pressed by private landowners who purchased more than 5.6 million seedlings." 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Q Ml 01 STO N STORES Where you get more for your money and the service is good. 112 SOUTH RIVERSIDE Faubus Promises No Cooperation With Integration Little Rock, Ark.-(UPD-Gov Orval Faubus said Wednesday the federal government would have to use live ammunition to force integration on Little Rock's four high schools this fall and he would do nothing to" help quell possible mob violence. Faubus, handed two recent setbacks in his fight to main tain " segregation in Little Rock, said if the schools should be opened on an in tegrated basis in September, it would be forced by the federal government and would not be the will of the people Laws Thrown Out Last month, - Little Rock voters recalled segregationist members of the Little Rock school board and replaced them with "moderates." Last week, a three judge federal court threw out two 1958 Arkansas laws Faubus used to close the four Little Rock High schools and withhold state money from the school district. The new school board said it apparently paves the way to reopen the schools this fall under a federal . integration order. -. But Faubus said .this is not necessarily so.- -Opening No Nearer "In spite of jthe federal court ruling, I don't think we are any nearer to being integrated -now than we were in. 1957;'. Faubus said.. .'We had a plan and a court order then, and we still did not open. " "They used troops in 1957 and marshals in 1958. What they will use if forced in tegration comes this year, I don t know. But I do know that the integration will be forced, . and it will be with live ammunition." Central Point Man Appointed Salem - (DPD - Gov. Mark Hatfield Wednesday made six appointments to the Military General Staff of Oregon- They are all for two year terms starting June 25. Col. John S. Panek, Port land, will replace Col. Gerald P. Cochran,' resigned. Col. Francis C. Ayres, Cen tral Point, will replace Col. Paul L. Kliever, resigned. Col. Waldo E. Timm, Port land, was reappointed. Lt. Col. Richard H. Jo hannsen, Vancouver, Wash., will replace Col. Carl V. Shoemaker, resigned. Lt. Col. David Baum, La Grande, will replace Briga dier Gen. Alfred E. Hintz, who resigned to become adju tant general of the Oregon National Guard, a position that is automatically on the general staff. Lt. Col. Donald N. Ander son, Portland, was also reappointed. Seven Named To . Benfgrass Group Salem (DPD-Seven appoint ments to the newly created Highland Bentgass commis sion were made by uov. Mark Hatfield Wednesday. Named by the governor were: Fred Goffin, Salem; Walter Dozler, Scio; Howard Jenks, Salem; Fred Hottinger, Stayton: Russell Lehman. Dayton; Walter McElhaney, Sublimity, and James Neal, Salem. The commission was creat ed as a result of a referendum held by the State Department of , Agriculture. - Six of : its members are growers or pro ducers and one member, is a handler. Garden. Sawdust McGinly Fuel Go. Ph. SP 3-6297 partment. Almost six million trees were planted on state lands during the 1958-59 plant ing season and of this amount nearly 3.8 million were sup plied by the current distribu tion of seedings from the nur sery north of Corvallis. Tillamook Burn More than 4 million trees went into the planting of the Tillamook burn, the forester added. Other plantings includ ed acreages of state lands in the counties of Clatsop, Mari on, Clackamas, Linn, Lincoln, Josephine and Klamath. Nearly 1.1 million tree seed lings were distributed cost free, just prior to the close of the spring planting season and after the commercial orders were filled, to youth and adult groups for planting on public lands. "This phase of the pro gram is of tremendous value," Maus stated, "in stimulating an active interest of Oregon's youth and adult population in the importance of their forest resources." Some 20 tree species and 7 species of shrubs are grown at the nurseries. The shrubs which include the multiflora rose, American plum," sand cherry, silverberry, choke cherry, honeysuckle and su mac are produced on special order for the state game com mission and the state highway department. Maritime pine is also grown at the request of the highway department for planting in their sand dune control program. Douglas Fir . The production of Douglas fir seedlings, by far the most important species, reached al most 7.3 mililon, while the true firs, such as the-grand, white, Shasta, and noble fir accounted for almost 1.3 mil lion seedlings. Some 851,280 ponderosa pine were shipped, 247,490 Austrian pine, 187,990 Sitka spruce, 167,539 cedar, and 95,963 Sierra redwood. There were 246,350 hard wood tree seedlings shipped which included black locust, caragana. Russian olive, Rus sian mulberry, Chinese arbor vitae, Chinese elm and cas No Progress In Tillamook Talks Tillamook - (DPD Repre sentatives of the Teamsters union and the Tillamook County Creamery association met with a federal mediator here for four hours Wednes day to discuss the 55-day-old walkout against the associa tion. Association manager Bealle Dickson said "nothing was accomplishd." It was the first' union-management meeting in several weeks. Another meeting was scheduled for Friday. The strike started May 1 when 17 men in the fluid milk department struck in a wage dispute. Another 160 workers joined the walkout but the creamery has been operating with management personnel and farmers. The Teamsters' boycott on Tillamook cheese, an out growth of the strike here, has been condemned by Tilla mook Mayor Loren McKin ley and others as a secondary boycott. lMAIL TRIBUNE. 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